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Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt Therapy. Questions?. What key concepts do you know in terms of Gestalt therapy?. View of Human Nature: people are. self-reliant Spontaneous capable of _____________________ able to reintegrate__________________ striving toward____________________. The present (here and now).

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Gestalt Therapy

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  1. Gestalt Therapy

  2. Questions? • What key concepts do you know in terms of Gestalt therapy?

  3. View of Human Nature:people are • self-reliant • Spontaneous • capable of _____________________ • able to reintegrate__________________ • striving toward____________________

  4. The present (here and now) • _____________rather than______________ • Becoming___________________rather than talking__________________. • Ask____________instead of____________ • The power is____________ • However, many people focus on _________ and engage in__________________

  5. Unfinished Business (UB) • Definition: Feelings about______are________ • May feel__________________ • May be________________________ • Interfere with_________________ • Tend to result in________________ • By working through unfinished business, the preoccupation with______________________.

  6. Contact & Resistance to contact • CONTACT– interaction with nature and other people without _____________________ • Contact is necessary for________________ • RESISTANCE TO CONTACT – the defenses that prevent us from___________________ • Clients are encouraged to become increasingly aware of their dominant style of__________________

  7. Contact Boundary Disturbances • Clients are encouraged to become increasingly aware of their dominant style of blocking contact • Introjection: uncritically accept others’ view____________ • Projection: disown certain aspect of ourselves by_________________ • Retroflection: doing to ourselves ___________________

  8. Energy and blocks to energy • Attend to where _______, how _______, and how _______________ • Blocked energy is a form of _________ • Recognize how their resistance ____________ • Exaggerate their _________ in order to increase__________

  9. Therapeutic Goals:helping clients • to enhance ______________ • to depend on_____________ • to bring the past or future into____________ • to achieve integration of _______________

  10. Therapist’s function and Role • Increase clients’___________ • Attend to the_________________ • Attend to __________________________ • Help clients to experience ________________ • Make_____statement

  11. The Therapeutic Relationship • ____________________ is important for the therapy to be effective • Be empathetic, genuine, and understanding • Share therapists’ experiences to clients in _______________ • Apply the notion of ______________in therapy

  12. Therapeutic Change • Not making progress is due to ____________(Perls, 1969) • Exploring the __________ • The Change Process: three-stage (Polster, 1987) • Discovery (___________________) • Accommodation (____________________) • Assimilation (_____________________)

  13. Therapeutic techniques and procedures • The experiential work • Use experiential work in therapy to work through___________and gain_________ • Preparing client for experiential work • Obtain permission from__________ • Be sensitive to________________ • Respect______________

  14. Therapeutic techniques and procedures • The internal dialogue exercise • Top dog (__________) and underdog (_______) • Empty-chair (____________________) • Making the rounds • Go around to _______ and say “__________……” • Reversal exercise • Reverse the ______style (e.g., ____________)

  15. Therapeutic techniques and procedures • Rehearsal exercise • Share______________________with a therapist • Exaggeration exercise • Exaggerate _________________, which usually intensifies the feelings attached to the behavior • Staying with the feeling • Go deeper into the feelings they ______________

  16. Therapeutic techniques and procedures The Gestalt approach to dream work • Do not __________________ dreams • Bring dream back to ___________ as though they are happening now • __________________ in the dream represents a ___________aspect of the dreamer • Dreams serve as an excellent way to discover ___________ • Not remembering_____________ what it is at that time

  17. Research on Gestalt Therapy • Compare with _____________________, Gestalt therapy is___________ • In general, results are similar among Gestalt therapy, ____________, or _________. • Leslie Greenberg and colleagues conducted a series of research on __________________ • Across studies, the empty chair technique is helpful by reducing _______ and increasing __________.

  18. From a multicultural perspective • Contributions • Work with clients from __________________ • Limitations • Focus on “affect” may not be appropriate • Asians value _________________ • Direct expression of the negative feelings to __________ is not appropriate.

  19. Summary and Evaluation--contribution • Enhance ______________ • Attend to ________________cues • _______________rather than talking about it • Focus on _______________________ • See each aspect of a dream as __________

  20. Summary and Evaluation-limitation • Limitations • Ineffective therapists may manipulate the clients with powerful experiential work • Some people may need psycho-education

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